A Discomforting Precedent For WiFi "Hot Spots"

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 7, 2002 @02:30AM from the ineffables-rule-the-day dept.

rob.sharp writes: "The BBC have some history lessons for wireless networks ...", pointing to an article about a wireless phone service called Rabbit, which relied on access areas similar in concept to the WiFi "hot spots" ISPs and business are experimenting with around the globe right now. ("Subscribers to the service, backed by Hutchison Whampoa, could make mobile calls when they were within 100 metres of a Rabbit transmitter.") Rabbit didn't work out well, though, and the article questions whether 802.11 access providers can do any better.

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Re:Who cares. by moz25 · 2002-08-07 02:39 · Score: 0, Troll

The current Euro currency is supported by 306M people, which excluded the UK. So I guess if you include the UK and a few eastern european countries as well, you'd get well over 400 million. So there's plenty of people caring. Conversely, that's also plenty of people not caring about the original poster's comment :-)

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